Re:The Trump administration accidentally texted me its war p...
by lentil_soup on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @05:04AM
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why blame the rule and not the people adding tracking and cookies without reason? You don't need those dumb banners if you don't try to cram cookies in everything
Re:The Trump administration accidentally texted me its war p...
by username332211 on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @07:30AM
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Somehow, someway, I suspect basically every that operates in the EU has thought more about the requirements of EU regulations than the internet know it all's that insist the consent forms are unnecessary.
Re:The Trump administration accidentally texted me its war p...
by lentil_soup on Thursday March 27, 2025 @12:58PM
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it's not about being a know it all, it's a regulation you can look up.
Look here: https://gdpr.eu/cookies/ > Receive users’ consent before you use any cookies except strictly necessary cookies
If you don't use cookies or they're stricly necessary, no need for a banner.
Many websites work perfectly fine without a banner, for example, Hacker News.
The internet is borderline unusable without extensions like "I don't care about cookies". And in situations where you care about them, you can not, because something has to record that I've seen the GDPR consent form. Recently, in the name of... who knows what, it's become a pain in the ass to access Google maps from Google search.
The idea that Europe can become a safe haven for entrepreneurs is beyond laughable. The vaunted "rule of law" has degraded into nothing more than fetishizing arbitrary and irrational rules.